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Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 14:34:46 +0100
From: Don Sharp <dwsharp AT iee DOT org>
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To: egor duda <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: changing terminal colours
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Absolutely nothing in my cygwin bash box.

Cheers

Don Sharp

egor duda wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Thursday, 17 May, 2001 Alun Moon alun DOT moon AT unn DOT ac DOT uk wrote:
> 
> AM> The default shell starts up with light text on a dark background.
> 
> AM> If I change the colours from the DOS-window properties menu, then
> AM> although the colours change, things like the syntax highlighting in
> AM> vim don't respond to the changes...
> 
> things like syntax highlighting in vim are configured from within
> things like vim itself. it's application task to configure terminal
> colors
> 
> AM> What's the mechanism for changing the colours within cygwin?
> 
> similar to other unices -- to change color, send appropriate escape
> sequence to terminal. cygwin terminal is supposed to be compatible
> with vt100.
> 
> for example, try this in your cygwin window:
> 
> bash$ echo -e "\033[36;44m"
> 
> and see what happens.
> 
> Egor.            mailto:deo AT logos-m DOT ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19
> 
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